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UK observatory nervously watches growing space junk threat
The Chilbolton Observatory in southern England tracks a growing number of objects in Earth's orbit, providing data that underpins Britain's space monitoring efforts. The space junk includes defunct man-made objects like rocket bodies, dead satellites, and fragments from l…
A four-tonne SpaceX rocket piece hurtling through space for over 18 months is believed to have smashed into the moon at high speed. The school-bus-size object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace in Jan 2025.
Defunct SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon, kicks up dust
A defunct SpaceX rocket piece crashed into the moon at high speed, joining the ranks of meteoroids and other pieces of space junk that have bombarded the lunar surface for ages. The rocket stage, which had dumped its remaining fuel and could not be controlled, was on an o…
A SpaceX rocket piece weighing four tonnes is expected to hit the moon at high speed early on Wednesday morning, kicking up a plume of lunar dust.